Abstract: A clearcoat composition and method reduce the ability of rain to bead on a film of the clearcoat. The clearcoat includes a resin, a cross-linking agent reactive with the resin, and a water-soluble surfactant. Upon exposure of the film to the rain, the surfactant reduces the ability of the rain to bead on the film and certain properties, such as resistance to etch from acid rain, are improved.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a process for removing mercaptans from fluid streams comprising same, especially from hydrocarbon gas streams, for example natural gas, synthesis gas from heavy oil or heavy residues or refinery gas, or else from liquid hydrocarbons, for example LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). The invention comprises intimately contacting the fluid stream in an absorption or extraction zone with a scrubbing liquor comprising at least one aliphatic alkanolamine of 2-12 carbon atoms, the amount of wash liquor being supplied to the absorption or extraction zone being sufficient to remove at least CO2 and H2S essentially completely from the fluid stream, and separating the substantially decontaminated fluid stream and the contaminated wash liquor and discharging them from the absorption zone.

Abstract: A process for preparing N-acyl derivatives of the formula I, in which the substituents independently of one another have the following meanings: X is CH(OR3)2, COOR3; R1 is hydrogen, C1-C12-alkyl, aryl, unsubstituted or substituted; R2 is hydrogen, C1-C12-alkyl, aryl, unsubstituted or substituted; R3 is C1-C12-alkyl, which comprises reacting a carboxamide R1—CONH2 of the formula II with a glyoxal monoacetal derivative of the formula III, in the presence of a carboxylic acid R4—COOH of the formula IV where R4=C1-C12-alkyl, where the substituents R1 to R3 are as defined above, is described.

Abstract: In a process for the two-stage catalytic gas-phase oxidation of propene to acrylic acid, the reaction gas starting mixture is passed, in a tube-bundle reactor, with a propene loading of ≧160 l (S.T.P.) of propene/l·h, first over a fixed catalyst bed 1 present in two successive temperature zones A, B and then over a fixed catalyst bed 2 which is housed either in one further temperature zone C or in two further temperature zones D, E, the temperature of the zone A being kept at a lower temperature than the zone B and the temperature of the zone D at a lower temperature than the zone E.

Abstract: The invention relates to an economical method of making a polymer having reduced VOCs and coating compositions containing such polymers. In one embodiment, the method of invention requires providing a reactant mixture (a), providing a solvent mixture (b) comprising a reactive component (c) which is substantially free of any heteroatoms and is not a crystalline solid at room temperature and comprises (i) from 12 to 72 carbon atoms, and (ii) at least two functional groups, and subjecting the reactant mixture (a) in the solvent mixture (b) to polymerization conditions sufficient to polymerize reactant mixture (a) to provide a mixture (d) of a polymer (a′) in solvent mixture (b), wherein reactive component (c) under the polymerization conditions is substantially nonreactive: (1) with the components of reactive mixture (a), (2) in the polymerization of reactant mixture (a) and (3) with the polymer (a′).

Abstract: A description is given of polyisocyanates of the formula I in which R and R′ are identical or different and are alkyl groups having 1-4 carbon atoms and n is on average from 1.5 to 5 and also of a process for preparing these polyisocyanates in which a polyamine of the formula II in which R, R′, and n are as defined above, is reacted with phosgene. The new polyisocyanates are suitable for producing crosslinked polyurethanes from reaction mixtures with low solvent content and for producing coating compositions or adhesives. Also described are the coating compositions and adhesives, and their use.

Abstract: Oxide comprising at least the elements Si and Ti, at least noncrystalline silicon dioxide and at least one crystalline silicate phase which has at least one zeolite structure, with noncrystalline silicon dioxide being applied to at least one crystalline silicate phase having at least one zeolite structure, wherein the oxide has no silicon-carbon bonds.

Abstract: Polyelectrolyte complexes of cationic and anionic polymers which consist of (a) cationic condensates of (i) at least one amine and (ii) a crosslinking agent from the group consisting of epihalohydrins, bishalohydrins of diols, bishalohydrins of polyalkylene glycols, bishalohydrins of polytetrahydrofurans, alkylene dihalides, alkylene trihalides, bisepoxides, trisepoxides, tetraepoxides and/or mixtures of said compounds, and/or quaternized cationic condensates of (i) and (ii), and (b) anionic compounds containing at least three anionic groups and have a charge ratio between anionic and cationic polymers of from 0.01 to 20, and a process for the preparation of the polylectrolyte complexes by mixing the cationic condensates (a) with anionic compounds (b).

Abstract: A process for preparing a multimetal oxide material which contains the elements Mo, V and Te and/or Sb and at least one of the elements Nb, Ti, W, Ta and Ce and if desired promoters and has a specific X-ray diffraction pattern, in which process the last process step comprises washing with acidic liquids. In addition, a multimetal oxide material obtainable in such a way is used as a catalyst for heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase partial oxidations and/or ammoxidation of hydrocarbons.

Abstract: A hydraulically sealed crossflow mass transfer tray, separating columns which contain the hydraulically sealed crossflow mass transfer tray and the use of such separating columns for thermal separating processes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer synthesized

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing at least one coating film on at least one area of a substrate surface, which comprises at least the following steps in the following order: a) initiating at least one crosslinking reaction in at least one reactive coating formulation; b) applying said at least one reactive coating formulation before the onset of said at least one crosslinking reaction on said at least one area of said substrate surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to solid supports for analytical measurement methods which are essentially composed of an inert solid support material on which hydrophilic measurement zones, separated from one another by a hydrophobic coating, where at least 10 measurement points are applied to the support per cm2. The invention furthermore relates to a process for producing the supports, and to the use of the supports in diagnostic methods, in research looking for active substances, in combinatorial chemistry, in crop protection, in toxicology or in environmental protection.

Abstract: An olefinically unsaturated, hydrophilic or hydrophobic polyurethane, which can be produced as follows: a polyurethane pre-polymer, produced by at least reacting at least one poly-isocyanate with at least one saturated and/or olefinically unsaturated higher-molecular and/or lower-molecular weight polyol in one or more stages so that, according to the statistical mean, at least one free isocyanate group per molecule still remains, is reacted with at least one compound containing at least two functional groups that are reactive to isocyanate, in such a way that no remaining free isocyanate groups are detectable. The resultant polyurethane is then reacted with at least one anhydride of an &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated carboxylic acid. Also, the use of the polyurethane for producing graft copolymers and to the use of the polyurethane and the graft copolymers for producing coating materials, adhesives and sealing masses.

Abstract: The use is described of particulate, water-insoluble and scarcely swellable polymers of ethylenically unsaturated monomers, which polymers contain, copolymerized, at least 20% by weight, based on the total weight of the monomers, of at least one &agr;,&bgr;-monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid having from 3 to 6 carbons as filter aid for filtering aqueous liquids. Subject-matter of the invention are also water-insoluble, scarcely swellable polymers (popcorn polymers) that contain, copolymerized, &agr;,&bgr;-monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and styrene or styrene derivatives, and also a process for their preparation.

Abstract: Multimetal oxide materials containing molybdenum, vanadium, antimony, one or more of the elements W, Nb, Ta, Cr and Ce and one or more of the elements Cu, Zn, Co, Fe, Cd, Mn, Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba and having a 2-component structure are used for the gas-phase catalytic oxidative preparation of acrylic acid.

Abstract: A process for drying phenoxymethylbenzoic acids of the general formula I where X, Y, m and n have the following meanings: X, Y halogen or a C-organic radical, m a value from 0 to 4 and n a value from 0 to 5 which comprises drying the water- and/or solvent-wet phenoxymethylbenzoic acids at a temperature in the range from 1° to 25° C. above their melting point under the reaction conditions used.

Abstract: Cationic polymers are obtainable by free-radical copolymerization, of a) from 50 to 70% by weight of one or more monomers of the formula I X=O, NR1, R1=H, C1-C8-alkyl, R2=tert-butyl, (b) from 5 to 45% by weight of one or more monomers of the formula II where n=1 to 3, (c) from 5 to 40% by weight of a monoethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one amine-containing group, (d) from 0 to 5% by weight of a polyalkylene oxide-containing silicone derivative, where up to 40% by weight, based on (a), (b), (c) and (d), of the monomer (a) can be replaced by a monomer of the formula I where R2=C2-C22-alkyl.

Abstract: The present invention relates to 4-formylamino-N-methylpiperidine derivatives of the formula (I) where the variables are as defined in the Description, to a process for preparing these piperidine derivatives, to the use of these piperidine derivatives of the invention, or prepared according to the invention, for stabilizing organic material, in particular for stabilizing plastics or coating materials, and also to the use of these piperidine derivatives of the invention, or prepared according to the invention, as light stabilizers or stabilizers for wood surfaces. The present invention further relates to stabilized organic material which comprises these piperidine derivatives of the invention or prepared according to the invention.

Abstract: The invention describes a process for the preparation of novel surfactant alcohols and surfactant alcohol ethers by derivatization of olefins having from about 10 to 20 carbon atoms or of mixtures of such olefins to give alkanols, and optional subsequent alkoxylation, which comprises subjecting a C4-olefin mixture to metathesis, dimerizing the resulting olefins, and then derivatizing them to give surfactant alcohols, and optionally alkoxylating said alcohols. The olefin mixture obtained in the dimerization has a high proportion of branched components and less than 10% by weight of compounds which contain a vinylidene group. The invention further describes the use of the surfactant alcohols and surfactant alcohol ethers to give surfactants by glycosylation or polyglycosylation, sulfation or phosphation.